Sunspot AR3186 erupted with an X1-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple ...

Solar scientists are tracking a surge in activity on the sun that could unleash powerful storms toward Earth, with the ...

Solar flares are intense bursts of radiation resulting from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots. They are classified into different categories based on their intensity, with ...

Insurance firm Lloyds recently estimated that an extreme solar event could lead to worldwide chaos with grounded flights, ...

Commercial aircraft operate at altitudes where Earth’s protective atmosphere is significantly thinner. This makes critical ...

Thousands of Airbus A320-family jets have been pulled for urgent software fixes after a solar storm triggered a sudden ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

This article was updated Nov. 21, 2025 shortly after BioSentinel’s mission marked three years of operation in deep space.

A massive solar storm in May 2024 gave scientists an unprecedented look at how Earth’s protective plasma layer collapses ...

As this month's string of powerful X-class solar flares sparked brilliant auroras that lit up skies across an unusually wide ...